While I figure out what direction to head in, let me just throw in this thought.
My despair at the state of our planet is well documented and I was only partly exaggerating when I said recently that the damage we have done to the environment leaves me so distressed, I almost want to kill myself when I think about it. At the same time, I have been convinced (only through my own instinct) that if we could just show some genuine effort with the environment and give mother nature a chance, her power of regeneration would stagger us.
My hopes that the earth can be healed seem to be confirmed by what I am reading for Lent, a review of the restoration that is promised by the events of Easter:
"It is God's plan to see the relationship between creation and humans restored to what it was intended to be in Eden.
This is what Jesus has enabled - a restoration and reconciling of all relationships"
For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that[a]the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.
22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Romans 8: 20-22
Our efforts at environmental stewardship are far too little and very much too late but maybe we will find some kind of restoration from our destruction if we would only try.
Your thoughts always welcome.
Your thoughts always welcome.
4 comments:
beautiful blog my friend with so cultivated thoughts!
you sound like a very sensible and sensitive soul through your analogy !
what i feel about this world and it's inhabitants is also not so pleasant .
Man as social animal displaying his all wild instincts and destroying not only the planet but loosing his humanity .
still being man of God loosing our hopes is sin so i will stay optimistic and pray that sooner or later few among us will take the step towards betterment and revolutionize the whole concept of life
Thank you for visiting, baili!
I do think that people are slowly taking steps towards more enlightened thinking but it is awfully slow!
Our efforts will always be too little too late. The irony of our human frailty is that it is clothed in such arrogance.
I sometimes think that Human beings being given such responsibility over something so important is like when parents give their children chores. The chores are often done badly but the wider picture is of huge importance- even if it is beyond the child's understanding.
At least that's what I tell myself to make it feel better
If you didn't have your religion to comfort you, I don't know what you would do because you seem so on the edge. I just wish that I could share your comfort. I never will because I could never believe that a world that is such a mess is being presided over by a perfect deity who cursed it because of the misdeeds of my species. Still, I would like to belong to some community that was rich in history ritual, music, community, and met in beautiful buildings. The fact is that I only know of one religion that welcomes atheists without reservation, and it is the Unitarian, and it bores me exceedingly. The local Quaker meeting will also welcome atheists into membership, but I've heard there the words that every atheist hates to hear: "You're too good a person to REALLY be an atheist," clearly implying the common feeling that atheists are by definition insensitive and unethical. Aside from that, the Quakers seem to shun beauty in their architecture, and they have no liturgy and no music.
Some Episcopalians are cool with atheists, but most are not. As with many churches, they make a point of welcoming agnostics, but they don't extend that same welcome to atheists. Last week, I found a group that does--Reconstructed Judaism. I wrote to them to verify that atheists really are welcome without there being any desire or expectation that they become theists. I haven't heard back, and I doubt that I will hear back.
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